Dr. Kevin Keough interviews Dr. Richard Tarnas, author of Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View published by Viking Adult.
Richard Tarnas is a professor of philosophy and cultural history at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco,
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where he founded the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. He also teaches archetypal studies and depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. Born in 1950 in Geneva, Switzerland of American parents, he is a graduate of Harvard University and Saybrook Institute.
From 1974 he lived and worked for ten years at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, studying with Joseph Campbell, Huston Smith, Gregory Bateson, and Stanislav Grof, and serving as its director of programs and education. He is the author of The Passion of the Western Mind, a history of the Western world view from the ancient Greek to the postmodern that became both a best seller and a required text in many universities. His most recent book, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, just published in paperback by Plume, won the Book of the Year Prize from the Scientific and Medical Network in England. Visit his website.
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